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TIL The opening flamenco guitar intro heard on the Beatles track, "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" was actually a prerecorded setting played from a Mellotron synthesizer.

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ZmPD TIL a Futurama fan spent 14 months drawing all the characters and alternate versions of the main characters from the show for one image. It’s about 1,300 individual figures.
5KNR TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
kNmE TIL Seinfeld theme song was redone for each episode in order to match the pacing of Jerry Seinfeld’s monologue in the beginning
wLja7 TIL that J.M. Barrie added the requirement of fairy dust for flying, because so many children injured themselves trying to fly after seeing the first production of “Peter Pan”
4XxlX TIL that it is not illegal to grow, possess and consume "magic mushrooms" (Psilocybe cubensis) here in Brazil (basically because we don't have a law against it) and there is even a web store selling them (alongside shitake, shiimeji and porcini mushrooms).